Celebrating Ice Cream Month with a Giveaway!

Did you know that July is National Ice Cream Month? I have a GIVEAWAY just for you! You can WIN 2 FREE pints of Graeter’s Ice Cream or Gelato! If you haven’t tried it yet, you are going to Love it!!

Graeter’s is an artisan family owned and operated company in business in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1870, making old-fashioned ice cream, traditional Italian Gelato, sorbets, and Certified Low Glycemic ice cream using 50% less sugar. To help celebrate their 147th anniversary, they have graciously donated coupons so you can enjoy this delightful, creamy, and sinfully delicious ice cream!

Their ice cream is made using the traditional French Pot process. The French Pot process is similar to the old-fashioned hand crank system used in the earliest homemade ice cream machines. Small batch processing gives each one personal attention and creating an irresistible creaminess that is completely unique, not to mention totally addicting!

Being in the heartland of the country, they have access to the freshest cream and milk from Ohio farms that practice humane and sustainable practices, including never using any artificial growth hormones. When that cream and milk are combined with 100% cane sugar and eggs, they get the perfect custard that is the base for all their flavors.

Graeter’s is committed to bringing you the best ice cream and use only the highest quality ingredients in everything they make. No fake syrups, sweeteners, colors or flavorings. And no hydrogenated oils so there are no trans fats in their products.

My family had one of the hand crank ice cream makers when I was young and it was so fun to make our own homemade ice cream, but a lot of work! We would take turns turning the crank and as it became harder and harder to turn – that’s when my brothers would take over and eventually, toward the end of the churning, my dad would do the last of the turns until it was almost too difficult for him. Then we knew we had the perfect ice cream!

Graeter’s uses a similar process today, making just two gallons at a time. This gives them the ability to create ice cream that has that same home-churned flavor and texture. The French Pot system greatly reduces the amount of air being whipped into the cream, creating the unbelievably smooth and creamy texture that is remarkable. And once it it’s done, they pack each pint by hand, nearly 20,000 pints a day!!

If you are lucky enough to be in the Midwest and can get to one of their 40 neighborhood stores, stop in and get the full soda fountain experience! They have cones, sundaes, sodas, shakes, malts, smoothies, ice cream cakes and more. Visit Graeter’s website to find stores in your neighborhoods where you can buy your own pints of your favorite flavors!

If you’re like me, you’ll spin on the high stools, swing your feet under the chair and totally revert to childhood, LOL. Now, how are you going to win that free ice cream? It’s simple – just complete the entries in the Rafflecopter below.

Good luck and have fun!

The Giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the winner Rebecca!

This giveaway is open to residents of the United States who are 18 years of age or older. The giveaway begins on 7/13/17 at 6:00am EST and goes through 7/31/17 at 6:00am EST. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. The winner will be selected and e-mailed within 5 days of the end of the giveaway. The winner has 48 hours to respond to the e-mail or another winner will be chosen. Vouchers will be sent directly to the winner by Graeter’s.

Comments

My favorite Ice Cream memory is the cones we ate on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland when I was a child, and we were vacationing there. We always walked the boardwalk in the evenings, and would stop for ice cream cones.

My fave memory is when I was 9 and we got our own ice cream maker, I had no idea how easy it was to make, and all the flavor possibilities. Our first batch was strawberry for my dad, and it was tres magnifique!

My favorite ice cream memory is going to Dairy Queen as a child and getting the chocolate-dipped soft-serve cones. They were so good! And back then, our local Dairy Queen closed for several months of the year so it was super-special when it was open and we could get our ice cream treats.